Hi, Target Your News has now been integrated with del.icio.us.
As mentioned in a previous email, Target Your News is a social news site with a twist: it is the submitter of a URL who is responsible for recommending it to those people who are likely to be interested. See a description here: http://groups.google.com/group/TargetYourNews/browse_thread/thread/756821b6c813835f Although it takes more work to submit news than del.icio.us/digg/reddit/slashdot, you might want to use this if you would like more control over the propagation of your news. Note that advertising/self-promotion is fine and actually encouraged here. Moreover, the process of targeting your news is a real-time game and could be fun. (See the description at the url above.) With del.icio.us integration, you can have the service take your del.icio.us bookmarks as "liked". This is done by sampling your rss feed to pick up new bookmarks. If a reasonable number of del.icio.us users import their bookmarks in this way, then we can get started quickly with recommendations and targeting. To import your del.icio.us bookmarks as "liked" via your rss feed: * register and login @ targetyournews.com (no email required) * enter your del.icio.us name under "Del.icio.us Import" After a day or so, you will start to see your recent bookmarks being imported as liked. So this means you can now receive recommendations, provided of course that submitters target their news to you. Some notes: * both "top" and "new" refer to your personal recommendations * the submitter determines who will receive the submission as a recommendation (under both top and new) * the submission score determines its ranking in your "top" recommendations list * a poorly targeted URL will have a low score, thus ranking low under top * whenever you submit a URL, don't forget to target it by clicking "target submission" (without targeting, it will not be recommended to anyone!) * to target a submission, enter other URLs that are used to determine the sort of people to target and avoid (try clicking "Submissions" then "target submission" in the demo account to see what I mean) * you can check up on your targeting rules frequently to get back feedback on how well they are working, so you can modify your targeting rules if necessary (this is the real-time game part) Amir _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
